DANIEL KNORR EXHIBITION

Daniel Knorr was born in Bucarest in 1968, but lives and works in Berlin.
In this solo exhibition at Galleria Fonti he presented two groups of new works:Depression Elevation and Capillaire.
Capillarie is a series of acrylic tubes containing different types of poison and displayed forming a circle in the first room of the gallery.
The title refers to the capillary vessels of a body. The presence of poison in a body can have different reasons. It can be used as a so antibody on order to boost yhe immune system and to destroy “foreign objects” like viruses or dangerous bacteria. In the same time it can be dangerous in the body if its concentration is higher than recommended.
Continuing the analogy with the state, while on one side the poison controls the society, it can at the same time be dangerous if it gets out of control.
Poisons are designing tools and a kind of biopolitical structure of our society and the work Capillaire is examining the abundance of their use in our common “historic body”.
In Depression Elevations Daniel Knorr explores the surface of cityscape using a series of resin sculptures cast from impressions of city. The city's vast and complex network of roads leaves an indelible mark upon the wide, flat plane of the cities, begetting a cultural landscape dominated by car culture and urban sprawl.
The hollows of the street, however, worn by the ravages of time and human use, provide a small footprint of the city's past. In casting from these puddles and potholes, Knorr catches history in his mold, engendering form and substance from a literal void. The resultant sculptures derive an evocative power not from their undeniably beautiful façade, but from intimate aura of a swiftly fading past.